19 December 2008

HAT!

Husband actually asked me to make him a hat. Husband rarely expresses a great deal of interest in my knitting. He is supportive, yes. He indulges me in my yarn tourism whims. But he is a man more interested in functionality than aesthetics, and when I say things like "would you like me to knit you a hat?" he responds, "I already have a hat."

But when he lost his (store-bought) hat a few weeks ago, he asked me to make him another. I immediately dropped everything and knit him a hat. Ask, and ye shall be rewarded for asking.

When he lost his mittens at the mechanic, I found them a week later. I did not respond nearly so kindly to the lost mittens. And I took this tendency-toward-forgetfulness into account in my yarn choices for a hat, too. He definitely got the light brown wool-acrylic blend that was a "bonus gift" in a box of destashed yarn I got from a college friend this fall. I don't care if he loses a hat made from splitty 80's acrylic-blend cheap-o yarn.

Basic pattern:Yarn is pretty basic worsted.CO 120 sts on size 7 needles. PM and join to knit in the round.k2, p2 rib for 3 inches -- enough for a nice brim to fold up over the earsswitch to St st - k2, k2tog around once. (90 sts.)knit in St st for about 7 inches.*k8, k2tog* ten times, keep decreasing at same places every round until you have 5 sts left.Pull yarn through remaining 5 sts and weave in ends.